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• Trump explains why he is cancelling Republican convention in Florida

  23-07-2020 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump announced that there will not be Republican convention activities in Jacksonville, Florida.
  
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• Cognitive test creator unpacks Trump's recent score boast

  23-07-2020 23:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  The screening test is intended to assess mild cognitive impairment or early dementia.
  
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• New document shows FBI used Trump's candidate briefing to advance Russia probe

  23-07-2020 23:52 via politico.com
  
  Trump's new intelligence chief declassified the document and sent it to Senate Republicans investigating the president's political enemies.
  
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• Former Trump official told US attorneys there should be no age limit on child separations, report says

  23-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, told US attorneys that there was no categorical exception for children under five under the then-active Trump Administration child separation policy for immigrants caught crossing the border illegally.The discussion occurred in 2018 on a conference call meant to clarify the "zero-tolerance" implementation of the Trump Administration's policy.
  
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• US arrests three Chinese nationals for visa fraud

  23-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US justice department says the researchers lied about their membership of China's armed forces.
  
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• Epstein's homes in New York and Palm Beach on sale for a combined $110M

  23-07-2020 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  Two homes owned by Jeffrey Epstein and cited in court documents as some of the locations where Epstein was accused of sexually abusing young women are now for sale for a combined total of roughly $110 million, according to the properties' listing agents.
  
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• Here's what's in the Republican's stimulus proposal

  23-07-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Manu Raju reports on what is in the GOP stimulus proposal and what President Trump was not able to include in the plan.
  
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• Trump Calls Off Jacksonville Republican National Convention Over Coronavirus

  23-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Thursday announced during a White House briefing that he was ordering the cancellation of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, saying that “it’s not the right time” in light of the massive coronavirus outbreak in the state.Trump said the RNC’s delegates would still meet in Charlotte, North Carolina, and that he would still hold a convention speech, albeit “in a different form.”The president cited his duty to &l
  
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• No Show! Trump Cancels Jacksonville GOP Convention

  23-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After weeks of warnings from health officials, President Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly decided to play public health hero and cancel the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, announcing plans instead for “some things with telerallies”—just a few days after his private company quietly sought to trademark the idea. Trump made the announcement just a few minutes in to the White House's daily coronavirus briefing, declaring that “it’s not the righ
  
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• Enbridge contractor vessels may have bumped pipeline support

  23-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Recent damage that prompted the temporary shutdown of an Enbridge oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes may have been done by vessels working for the company, according to an in-house report provided Thursday to The Associated Press.Enbridge this week submitted to government agencies the results of its investigation into “disturbances” that were discovered during inspections of dual pipelines that run across Michigan's Straits of Mackinac.The two pipelines are part
  
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• Fox News host loses job months after coming to work visibly ill during coronavirus pandemic

  23-07-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News has parted ways with Fox and Friends First host Heather Childers, months after she was criticised for coming to work visibly ill.A spokesperson for Fox News told The Independent on Thursday: “Fox News and Heather Childers have parted ways. We wish her all the best,” but did not elaborate further.
  
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• Marine assigned to Trump's helicopter unit tests positive for coronavirus

  23-07-2020 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  A US Marine assigned to Marine Helicopter Squadron One, the unit responsible for transporting the President, has tested positive for coronavirus.
  
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• US indicts four China researchers accused of hiding military ties

  23-07-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Justice Department announced Thursday the indictments of four Chinese researchers it said lied about their ties to the People's Liberation Army, with one escaping arrest by taking refuge in the country's San Francisco consulate.The department said the four are part of a Chinese effort to "infiltrate" US institutions to gain scientific and technological knowledge."This is another part of the Chinese Communist Party's plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic instituti
  
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• Veto-proof Senate majority passes defense bill requiring Confederate-named bases to be renamed

  23-07-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump no longer has a say in preserving the names of military bases named after Confederate leaders.The Senate passed a $741 billion defense bill, 86-14, on Thursday that forces Confederate names to be removed from Army bases. The bill passed with a similarly overwhelming majority in the House, meaning Trump won't be able to veto the measure.Protests over police brutality and racism in the U.S. led to calls to remove statues of Confederate leaders from around the U.S. and to take their
  
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• Pompeo: U.S. engagement with China has failed

  23-07-2020 23:20 via politico.com
  
  The secretary of state decried China as a dishonest global player and brutal domestic regime.
  
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• U.S. clears way for drugmakers to share COVID antibody capacity

  23-07-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a letter to Lilly, Amgen, AbCellera Biologics, AstraZeneca Plc, Roche Holding's Genentech unit and GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the DOJ said demand for monoclonal antibodies targeting COVID-19 is likely to exceed what one firm could produce on its own.The drugmakers are in various stages of developing experimental monoclonal antibodies - manufactured proteins designed to bind to a targeted cell, neutralize it and mark it for destruction by the immune system - for treatment, or even prevention, of COV
  
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• Maryland governor criticizes Trump on virus response

  23-07-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The nation's governors were priming for battle against the coronavirus as early as February, but President Donald Trump's lackadaisical approach to the spreading disease hindered a national response, according to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, chairman of the National Governors Association.Trump initially was “downplaying" the threat and saying “this virus is going to disappear," despite grave warnings from top national experts, Hogan told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday."T
  
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• GOP relief bill has less unemployment aid and $20 billion for farmers

  23-07-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican coronavirus relief bill includes no local aid, smaller unemployment benefits and $20 billion for farmers.
  
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• Triple tropical trouble: Douglas, Gonzalo and Tropical Depression 8 threaten US, Caribbean

  23-07-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three storms are threatening havoc: Hurricane Douglas in the Pacific, tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Gonzalo in the Atlantic.
  
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• The Media Can’t Stop Misleading on Guns

  23-07-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the possible exception of religion, there is no issue in American political life that is as poorly covered as guns. At RealClearPolitics, John Lott reports that legacy media outlets often quite literally allow anti–Second Amendment activists to write their news stories on gun policy. Politico hasn’t quite done that today, but . . . well, I’m not sure having reporters dutifully repackaging Everytown USA press releases is any better.Politico’s piece is headli
  
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• US Justice Dept. watchdog to investigate federal use of force in US cities

  23-07-2020 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  • Portland mayor tear gassed by federal agents after speaking with protesters
  
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• Trump has dug himself into a deeper hole in Florida, highlighting how far he's slipped among seniors

  23-07-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump was already trailing Biden among seniors nationwide, but new polling shows a troubling trend for the president in his new home state of Florida.
  
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• U.S. Senator Duckworth floats plan to rescue coal country

  23-07-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth on Thursday unveiled a plan to rehabilitate communities hurt by the decline of the U.S. coal industry - an appeal to a political constituency seen as important in the November election.The bill would direct investment to communities reeling from closures of mines and coal-fired power plants in recent years, to create new jobs and help them grapple with issues like opiod addiction and black lung disease https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-blacklung-insig
  
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• Trump's Intervention in Portland Shows that the Republican Party Has Lost Its Way on State's Rights

  23-07-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal intervention in Portland, Ore., shows how far Trump has pulled the Republican Party from the principles of the Tea Party.
  
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• Thailand's first convicted serial killer cremated after six decades as a museum attraction

  23-07-2020 22:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  He was known simply as the “cannibal,” and his contorted and blackened corpse stood on chilling public display at the Forensic Museum at Bangkok’s Siriraj Hospital for some 60 years.
  
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• Demi Lovato announces engagement on Instagram

  23-07-2020 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  Singer Demi Lovato announced her engagement to actor Max Ehrich on Instagram.
  
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• Nevada and COVID-19: Should casinos be open as virus cases surge? It's complicated

  23-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nevada casinos reopened seven weeks ago. Since then, the number of new COVID-19 cases in the state has surged. Should casinos close?
  
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• Florida poll puts Biden 13 points over Trump

  23-07-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida is seemingly reconsidering its narrow 2016 vote for President Trump.While Trump won the state by just a percentage point in 2016, former Vice President Joe Biden has pulled ahead of Trump 51-38, a Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday indicates. Approval for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is also down 31 points since the last Quinnipiac Florida poll in April, suggesting rampant COVID-19 spread in the state is at least partially to blame.Quinnipiac's April poll gave Biden only a 46-42 lead over
  
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• Court upholds Alex Jones sanctions in Sandy Hook case

  23-07-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a sanction against Infowars host Alex Jones over an angry outburst on his web show against an attorney for relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, who are suing him for defamation.The court issued a 7-0 decision rejecting Jones' claims that his comments aimed at attorney Christopher Mattei were protected by free speech rights, and upholding a lower court's ruling that Jones violated numerous orders to turn over docu
  
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• White House, GOP senators inch closer to coronavirus relief proposal

  23-07-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House and Senate Republicans had reached a "fundamental agreement."
  
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• We Caught Russia Testing a Space-Based Weapon

  23-07-2020 22:18 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Maybe the Space Force is a good idea after all.
  
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• Trump administration to be investigated over use of force against protesters in Portland

  23-07-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Inspectors general at the Justice Department and Homeland Security Department are launching separate probes into the Trump administration's deployment of federal law enforcement officers to Portland, Oregon, and various complaints over their use of force on demonstrators, they announced on Thursday.In a letter to three House Democratic committee chairs — Jerry Nadler of the Judiciary panel, Carolyn Maloney of the Oversight panel, and Benny Thompson of the Homeland Security panel — th
  
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• Chilean extradited to France for killing of Japanese student

  23-07-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A plane carrying a Chilean man accused of murdering a Japanese student in France took off from Santiago's airport Thursday bound for Paris, where he will face trial for the alleged 2016 slaying.Nicolas Zepeda, 29, had been under house arrest at his mother’s apartment in the Chilean resort of Viña del Mar since the Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition in May. He is charged in France with premeditated murder in the alleged slaying of Narumi Kurosaki, whose body was never fou
  
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• The Battle of Portland: Trump's escalating tactics against protesters are backfiring in Oregon

  23-07-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A report from night 50 of the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked Portland and focused national attention on the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress protests that sometimes carry a violent edge.
  
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• Pakistani journalist recounts ordeal, abduction by armed men

  23-07-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the country’s military on Thursday recounted his ordeal this week when armed men abducted him in broad daylight and held him captive for a day.It was the first time Matiullah Jan, who was freed on Tuesday, shared details about his 12-hour detention.Jan chose to release a video in which explains how he had dropped off his wife on Tuesday morning at a school in Islamabad where she works and was checking messages on his phone, his car still pa
  
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• Two of the ISIS terrorists dubbed the Beatles admit involvement in captivity of Kayla Mueller, James Foley

  23-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In exclusive interviews, the two men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, for the first time admitted their involvement in the captivity of Mueller.
  
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• The U.S. Now Has 4 Million COVID-19 Cases, With No End in Sight

  23-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  And that number is likely an undercount
  
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• Trump: Vote-By-Mail Is Rigged. Trump’s Campaign? It’s ‘Easy And Secure.’

  23-07-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “REQUEST YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT TODAY,” reads a mailer sent to North Carolina Republicans earlier this week by the North Carolina Trump Victory campaign, the Trump campaign’s joint field operation with the Republican National Committee in the state. The mailer, part of a push to contact more than three million voters in the state, calls voting by mail “easy and secure,” and urges recipients to use the “Official Republican Party Absentee Ballot Application to saf
  
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• Justice Department watchdog to investigate federal use of force in US cities

  23-07-2020 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  • Portland mayor tear gassed after speaking with protestors on presence of federal agents
  
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• US surpasses 4 million cases as hospitalizations near record

  23-07-2020 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  The US on Thursday surpassed 4 million officially recorded Covid-19 cases -- and a quarter of that count came in just the last 15 days.
  
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• Trump cancels Jacksonville portion of GOP convention

  23-07-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It's just not the right time for that," the president said of having a large convention in Jacksonville, Florida.
  
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• Israel moves toward outlawing 'conversion therapy,' potentially becoming first Middle East country to do so

  23-07-2020 21:33 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israel became the first country in the Middle East Wednesday to take a step toward outlawing "gay conversion" therapy on Wednesday.
  
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• Qantas just retired the iconic Boeing 747 with a commemorative last flight flown by the airline's first female captain who drew a kangaroo in the sky

  23-07-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Qantas ended the near-50-year reign of the Australian Queen of the Skies, the jet that opened up Australia to the rest of the world.
  
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• Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Prohibit Federal Funding for Schools Using ‘1619 Project’ Curriculum

  23-07-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced a law on Thursday that would prohibit federal funding for schools that incorporate curriculum from the New York Times's “1619 Project.”The 1619 Project, named after the year when colonists first brought slaves to the U.S., attempts to retell American history by emphasizing the importance of slavery in the country's earliest years. However, historians have criticized the project for basic "factual errors" and a " displacement of historical
  
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• Crowd saves two children from burning building

  23-07-2020 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  The two siblings, aged three and ten, escaped a fire that broke out, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
  
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• Mysterious 'blue hole' near Florida wows scientists

  23-07-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hole is about 425 feet deep and is located some 155 feet below the water's surface, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  
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• Mike Tyson, 54, is returning to the ring to box again

  23-07-2020 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  Boxing legend Mike Tyson, 54, announced on Thursday that he will be climbing back into the ring for an exhibition bout against another all-time great boxer Roy Jones Jr.
  
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• Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant dies after testing positive for COVID-19

  23-07-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant died after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month in California.
  
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• Justice Department watchdog to investigate federal use of force in Portland and Washington

  23-07-2020 21:16 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department's independent watchdog agency said Thursday that it will investigate the use of force by federal law enforcement officers in Portland, Oregon, and Washington, DC.
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's jailing 'was retaliation' for book

  23-07-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge found Michael Cohen's re-arrest to be in retaliation for a book critical of Donald Trump.
  
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